#ring

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ↗

— Jacob August Riis

#before #blow #crack #did #gone

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#earth #knows #like #poems #returned

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing! ↗

— Pat Riley

#contribute #declaring #each #ego #hardest

I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids. ↗

— LeAnn Rimes

#bringing #country #generation #i #i think

I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately. ↗

— Molly Ringwald

#did #early #exploring #france #free

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#american #american movies #i #i think #kid

My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion. ↗

— Lee Ritenour

#already #also #been #drummer #drums

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

#fearing #future #his #life #man

It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#american military #bring #death #failure #hard

I am enduring. You can disagree with me. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

#disagree #enduring #i #i am #me